Human geography is a branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place. Human geography attends to human patterns of social interaction, as well as spatial level interdependencies, and how they influence or affect Earth’s environment. It concentrates on the study of human activities by using qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Economic geography is the study of place, distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world. It represents a traditional sub-field of the discipline of geography. However, many economists have also approached it in ways more typical of the discipline of economics.

Economic geography is also defined by the geographers as the study of human economic activities under varying sets of conditions associated with production, location, distribution, consumption, and exchange of resources.

Environmental geography is a branch of geography that describes the spatial aspects of interactions between humans and the natural world. It is the study of systematic description of different components of environment and interaction of human beings with these components.

This book explains and examines various facets of the three related subjects of human, economic and environmental geography.

Professor Meenu Agrawal is Principal, Ginni Devi Modi Girls (Post-graduate) College, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh and also Associate Professor and Head, Department of Economics in the same college. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut in 1991. She specialises in the areas of rural development, economic choices and environmental issues. With more than 35 years of teaching experience and 25 years of research experience, she has authored 42 books and co-authored 17 books in areas of her specialisation.

Dr. Agrawal has published 75 research papers in journals and magazines of repute. She has also attended and presented papers at various national and international conferences and seminars. She has also organized 10 national seminars, sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi and the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi.  She is the recipient of several awards at the national level.